Senior Planner APA Ohio Cincinnati Section Cincinnati, Ohio
How does a community go about integrating energy into its comprehensive plan? This presentation explores eight varied communities that tackled the energy topic for the first time.
Energy planning centers on energy use and delivery in the community, identifies how those issues intersect with land-use patterns and transportation choices, and formulates strategies to make the community’s energy use more efficient.
Energy planning at the local level is where many other kinds of planning converge. Energy planning and initiatives have significant roles in quality building standards, emergency-management planning (since most community–wide emergencies involve disruption of power delivery), facility costs and fiscal projections, air quality, and land use.
This project is developing a much better understanding of local community priorities, which currently are missing from discussions of energy issues. Things work better when regional transportation priorities and local land-use priorities align.
NPC Peer Reviewers assigned this presentation a learning level of Intermediate. For more on learning-level descriptions, visit our General Information Page.
Learning Objectives:
Understand the role of local community planning in organizing and advancing energy efficiency and green energy efforts.
Grasp how energy intersects with topics traditionally included in a comprehensive plan: transportation, housing, public services, and economic development
Promote equity in your community’s push for green energy.
